It has been a lifeline for the country’s trade balance and continues to be the major driver of exports of services. Tourism activity recorded in the first five months of the year grew by 10.4% in the number of guests. By hotels, apartments, guesthouses, resorts and other lodging for tourists passed by May 6.6 million guests, according to figures released Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
in all, there were 17.5 million overnight stays during this period. The increase in the first five months of last year is 11% and is more significant among foreigners than among residents in Portugal. There was an annual rise of 12.7% of international tourists compared with a rise of 7.8% in domestic tourists.
Looking at just the month of May it appears that, however, there was less tourism within doors. While overnight stays of foreigners continued to increase compared to May of last year (3.8 million overnight stays, an increase of 10.7%), there was a decrease in the domestic market, with the number of residents tourist overnights to download 1 1%, to 1.14 million.
the fact that there was less Portuguese tourists to sleep in hotels stops the upward trend of previous months, and “the last negative result had occurred in April 2015 (-7.1%). “
in May, says the INE, the hotel housed 1.8 million guests (an annual rise of 5.1%), which provided five million overnight stays (up 7.8%). This month, the s British citizens accounted for more than a quarter of all overnight stays by foreigners, registering a “significant increase of 12.9%”, although lower than the previous month. In total for the first five months of the year, growth in the number of guests coming from the United Kingdom (2.9 million) was more significant, 16.2%.
“Germany recovered (+ 13% compared to + 1.1% in April), approaching the results of March (+ 12.9%). The relative weight stood at 14.5%. Overnights the French market increased 14.4% and represented 12.5% of the total, “the INE. The Netherlands and Spain presented in May “positive developments”, with increases of 11.4% and 14.9% respectively, but the values are below the set of five months.
the Azores continue to be the region that is growing in tourism (in overnight stays), a small market to national tourism scale and began to grow significantly with the flight of companies low cost .
from January to May, overnight stays were up 36% year on year (the low cost flights began in March last year). The Azores, however, continue to have a small share in total overnights:. 489,900 for a total of 17.5 million overnight stays at national level
In the Algarve there were 5.2 million overnight stays, in the Lisbon metropolitan area were 4.6 million, 2.7 million in Madeira and in the North 2.3 million. Then comes the central region, with 1.5 million, and the Azores and the Alentejo with identical values below 500 thousand.
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